I think all this talk of AI assisted learning is basically cope. Not that you can’t learn from AI, but for example - we do rudimentary phiscixal exercise when there’s no physical exercise you can do that a machine can’t do better. Why run when you can just drive?

The people who will be successful in this new world are the ones who will continue to train their brain in rudimentary ways (longhand math problems, for instance) in spite of these tools being available.

For sure it has to be both, jobs in the future will expect a person be able to maintain much more context and process much more information at once than current jobs do, and there will be allying with AI.

But for all the talk of say “don’t memorize anything you can look up in google”. There’s nothing wrong with looking things up, but the more you can keep in working memory, the more you can act on in any given moment.

For sure I’ve forgotten more about tech than I know now, but I do think that there are fragments and mental models that I can continue to act on that my peers don’t have access to, and I think things like - memorizing subnet math and the OSI model have been part of that.

And also - I acknowledge that part of my learning super powers come from leveraging all the tools available to me, but that means both a healthy dose of AI, and reading the classics, not just having AI summarize them for me.

For sure I’ll be raising my kids this way, if they’re learning AI in schools, it will be shop class at home.